A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

seys Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words25.3 41.6 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences8181 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors7 7

Occurrences of seys in Corpus

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Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 85 - D.I.Y. Doctor , (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
'This,' seys she an timed a dose o iodine on page 36

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 90 - Serendipity, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
et it tae the richt time.' he seys, fiddlin wi the winder. on page 27

1 matches

Moodie, Gordon D. Lallans 90 - Snoke Iz A Pithie Warlock, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
o heez kirtenin, heez faither seys 'Ah kin tell ye that the wee on page 78
xpleen whit's wrang wi me she seys ''that the trauma had likely on page 80

11 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
s. 'Sic a mensefou bairn, she seys tae Brither Cyril, gien him a on page 12
'Aye, seys Skaldie, dichtin his steikit on page 13
aa Norrawa in ma ain hauns,' seys Harald. Sae they cryit him Sh on page 14

55 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
Education Act (1872) seys it just fine: The language of on page 20
lity, whaur facks are whit he seys they are? on page 56
Whit he seys maks an affy lot o sense an y on page 79
ak awa. Or as the same mannie seys in the Bible: on page 82
Nou, oniebuddie that seys they dinnae believe that the on page 89

5 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
naethin for a meenit. Then he seys tae me. on page 73

2 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
he seys, "An it's aa your wark! on page 23
Your ain anlie - that seys: on page 33

2 matches

Liddell, Faith Eemis Stane 1 - Ghaist Yairn, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
Ah seys, "It's been a while." on page 19

1 matches

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
, quinie?” the Mither mebbe seys. Ah hear this play. The coffe
“He’s OK,” Margaret seys, her Doric aa rin dry.
“Yes.” Margaret seys. “Yes.”
3 matches

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